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Security and access to prevention-related information and training should be rights guaranteed for all. This is not the case, however, for most people with intellectual disabilities (ID), who may face numerous difficulties when dealing with emergency situations. The SIT (Safety, Inclusion and Technology) project is focused on designing and developing a technological solution for identifying individuals with ID in emergencies, attending to them, and providing preventive training to improve their self-determination and quality of life. To do so, we have used Design-Based Research (DBR) owing to its characteristic cyclical refinement of designed products. This research method has enabled us to validate the contents of the final versions of the SOSDI Application and SIT project website. In this paper we describe the flow of operation, provide a detailed definition of the components of both products, and discuss accessibility features we have taken into account to ensure cognitive accessibility. (AU)
La seguridad, así como el acceso a la información y formación relativa a la prevención es un derecho que todas las personas deben tener garantizado. Este no es el caso de la mayoría de las personas con discapacidad intelectual (DI), quienes pueden presentar numerosas dificultades para desenvolverse en situaciones de emergencia. El proyecto SIT (Seguridad, Inclusión y Tecnología)se centra en el diseño y desarrollo de una solución tecnológica que permita la identificación, atención y formación preventiva de personas con DI en situaciones de emergencia con el fin de mejorar así su autodeterminación y calidad de vida. Para ello hemos utilizado la metodología de la Investigación Basada en el Diseño (DBR) como método de investigación por su característica cíclica de refinamiento de los productos diseñados. Esto nos ha permitido validar el contenido de la aplicación SOSDI y la web del proyecto SIT en sus versiones teóricas finales. En este artículo podrán encontrar el flujo de uso, la definición detallada de cada una de las partes de los productos, así como los aspectos de accesibilidad que se han tenido en cuenta para garantizar la accesibilidad cognitiva. (AU)
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Humans , Emergencies , Intellectual Disability/prevention & control , Education of Intellectually Disabled , Patient Safety , Access to Information , TechnologyABSTRACT
SCOPE: Eating large amounts of fat is usually associated with fat accumulation. However, different types of diets (not only lipids) elicit different metabolic responses. METHODS AND RESULTS: Male and female rats (10 week-old) are distributed in four groups and fed for 1 month a standard diet (SD), or this diet enriched with either lipid (high-fat diet, HF) or protein (high-protein diet, HP), or a cafeteria diet (CAF). Both HF and CAF diets share the percentage of energy from lipids (40%) but these are different. Protein-derived energy in the HP diet is also 40%. Feeding SD, HF, and HP diets does not result in differences in energy intake, energy expenditure, total body weight, or lipid content. However, the CAF-fed groups show increases in these parameters, which are more marked in the male rats. The CAF diet increases the mass of adipose tissue while the HF diet does not. CONCLUSION: Different diets produce substantial changes in the fate of ingested nutrient energy. Dietary lipids are not essential for sustaining an increase in body lipid (or adipose tissue) content. Body protein accrual is unrelated to dietary lipids and overall energy intake. Both protein and lipid accrual are more efficient in male rats.
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Diet, High-Fat , Diet, High-Protein , Adipose Tissue , Animals , Dietary Fats/pharmacology , Dietary Proteins/pharmacology , Energy Intake , Energy Metabolism , Female , Lipid Metabolism , Lipids/analysis , Male , Rats, Wistar , Weight GainABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Food selection and ingestion both in humans and rodents, often is a critical factor in determining excess energy intake and its related disorders. METHODS: Two different concepts of high-fat diets were tested for their obesogenic effects in rats; in both cases, lipids constituted about 40% of their energy intake. The main difference with controls fed standard lab chow, was, precisely, the lipid content. Cafeteria diets (K) were self-selected diets devised to be desirable to the rats, mainly because of its diverse mix of tastes, particularly salty and sweet. This diet was compared with another, more classical high-fat (HF) diet, devised not to be as tasty as K, and prepared by supplementing standard chow pellets with fat. We also analysed the influence of sex on the effects of the diets. RESULTS: K rats grew faster because of a high lipid, sugar and protein intake, especially the males, while females showed lower weight but higher proportion of body lipid. In contrast, the weight of HF groups were not different from controls. Individual nutrient's intake were analysed, and we found that K rats ingested large amounts of both disaccharides and salt, with scant differences of other nutrients' proportion between the three groups. The results suggest that the key differential factor of the diet eliciting excess energy intake was the massive presence of sweet and salty tasting food. CONCLUSIONS: The significant presence of sugar and salt appears as a powerful inducer of excess food intake, more effective than a simple (albeit large) increase in the diet's lipid content. These effects appeared already after a relatively short treatment. The differential effects of sex agree with their different hedonic and obesogenic response to diet.
